South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.

In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have it, because they usually lack the knowledge and imagination necessary for making such a choice.

In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.

Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.

All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.